Sava Petrović (botanist)

Sava Petrović (1839 to 1889) was a Serbian botanist and Doctor of Medicine, considered one of the most important Serbian botanists of the nineteenth century. He was active in phyto-pharmacology, botany and medicine at the same time and wrote and published numerous scientific works. He is also remembered as a co-founder, like many of his peers, of the Srpsko lekarsko društvo, the Serbian Medical Society, in 1872, and in the same year his book Medicinal Herbs was published. The source lead for this entry is a single short paragraph, so it records his nationality, his fields, his standing and the society and book it names and leaves his career, his posts and his other works to further research from fuller sources.